"Man is a glorious and unique species of animal. The species originated by evolution.... Future evolution could raise man to superb heights as yet hardly glimpsed, but it will not automatically do so. ..."
- George Gaylord Simpson
"If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's..."
"Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal."
"From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole."
"The conflict between science and religion has a single and simple cause. It is the designation as religiously canonical of any conception of the material world open to scientific investigation....As a..."